Claremont, CA · Private · Every figure is for a student starting in fall 2027. We work each one out again whenever we update the site.
How to pay for Scripps College
What a year costs here, what brings it down, and what a SmartTuition plan could save a family like yours.
Paying for four years here
Four years here, after grants
$115,524
A SmartTuition plan could save a family like this about $4,300.
A SmartTuition plan shows what to pay from where, each semester, using your own numbers.
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A family of four with good credit and $500 a month for college. How we worked these out ↓
A year at Scripps College
| Full price | $99,397 |
| After grants, at your income | $30,412 |
56% of first-year students here got a grant or scholarship from the college in 2023-24, $40,875 on average.
At this income, 49 of California's other 64 colleges cost less after grants, and 15 cost more. See them all →
What can bring it down
Merit scholarships. Admission scholarships of $15,000 to $30,000 a year, awarded on academic performance and school or community involvement. Every first-year applicant is considered automatically, the amounts are fixed, and they last four years. About 23% of students get one.
Scripps College's promise. Scripps College says it covers 100% of what a family cannot pay. The conditions ↓
Pay less for college
A SmartTuition plan shows what to pay from where, each semester.
At Scripps College, our scenarios for California households with good parent credit show a SmartTuition plan saving a median of about $4,300 over four years. How we worked this out ↓
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What Scripps College says it awards for grades and test scores.
Admission scholarships of $15,000 to $30,000 a year, awarded on academic performance and school or community involvement. Every first-year applicant is considered automatically, the amounts are fixed, and they last four years. About 23% of students get one.
What Scripps College commits to
Scripps College says it covers 100% of what a family cannot pay.
“A Scripps College degree is a significant investment, and Scripps meets 100 percent of a student’s institutionally determined financial need.”
Scripps College financial aid office — verified 2026-09.
Conditions the school attaches to that commitment
- Scripps says the need is the need it determines itself.
These are the school’s own qualifiers. A commitment quoted without them is not the commitment they made.
Published guarantees you may qualify for
We do not assume you qualify for any of these, and our plans never bank on them. Check each against your own situation with the aid office.
A Scripps Grant of at least $30,000 a year for families with total income of $250,000 or less and typical assets, from 2027-28
Household income up to $250,000. Also requires “typical assets” — a test we cannot evaluate for you.
- FROM 2027-28 — Scripps says this begins in the 2027-28 academic year.
“Beginning in 2027–2028, students from families with a total family income of $250,000 or less and typical assets will receive at least $30,000 in Scripps Grant aid.”
How we worked these out
The family
A family of four with good parent credit and $500 a month to put toward college, and the savings you pick. In state, the grants are what Scripps College reports families at that income got, on average. Your own will differ, and a family with no aid pays close to the full price.
What a SmartTuition plan saves
The difference, over four years, between a SmartTuition plan and the standard approach: savings first, then loans for the rest. It counts loan interest and the federal tax credit.
The $4,300 in the “Pay less for college” box near the top of this page is the median saving in Scripps College's own scenarios. Each scenario is a household that lives in California, with an income from $45,000 to $200,000 and savings of none, $40,000 or $100,000 in a 529. We price Scripps College at the aid it reports for that income.
Every scenario has parents with good credit and $500 a month toward college. The card above uses the same two. A scenario where the parents would borrow more than $65,000 is left out.
The prices by income
- They describe students who got aid.
- “Over $110,000” has no upper limit, so it averages families just over $110,000 with far wealthier ones. A family at $115,000 should expect to pay less than it shows.
- Each range is reported on its own, so the prices do not always rise with income.
Grants from the college
How many first-year students got a grant from Scripps College, and the average, are the Department of Education's figures for full-time students who started in 2023-24. They cover every income. The prices after grants already count these grants, so don't take them off again. The Department of Education's page for Scripps College →
Where the prices come from
Where the prices come from: Scripps College's own 2026-27 tuition, fees, housing, food and books, from its website, carried forward to 2027 at 4.0% a year. The grants are the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard (2025-26 figures), carried forward the same way. Each price after grants is the cost less those grants. The average price after grants counts the students who get federal aid. Your own figure will be different.
SmartTuition.ai is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Scripps College. Aid policies change; check current terms with the college's aid office.
Nearby at your income
- Westmont College$29,888 a year
- Biola University$30,366 a year
- Scripps College$30,412 a year
- University of Redlands$30,702 a year
- University of the Pacific$30,827 a year
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